Media - limits results to press releases, publications, speeches, and videos of redistricting hearings,
session and committee meetings. YouTube Videos and Picasa photos come from sources outside the site and are not included in the category.

Publications - limits results to certain publications within the site.

Statutes - limits results to The Florida Statutes from 1997 to the present.

Pagination

The search is powered by Google, who limits the results to a maximum of 100 records, which are grouped into ten records per page.

Hit Highlights

Your search term(s) will be highlighted when you select a link from the results page.

Advanced Search Features

Stemming - Your search result may contain suffixes of the word used. This is called stemming.
For example: If you search for the word bicycle, your search will return a broad result on bicycle, bicycles, and bicycling.

Wildcards - If stemming does not return a broad enough result, use an asterisk (*) as a wildcard at the end or
beginning of a word, or for a portion of a word. For example, if you type govern* in the Search box, the search will return
a broad result on Govern, governs, governed, governing, government, governmental, governor.

Multiple-word Searches - Two or more words separated by a comma. Will find returns that contain each word.

Phrase Searches - Similar to multiple-word searches, except words are not separated by a comma. When
federal census is entered into the search box, returns contain both federal and census.

Boolean Operators - Specify words, exclude words, or add complex combinations of words to be queried by
using Boolean Operators. Boolean Operators should be represented by words (and, or, not) and not symbols (&, |, ^).

AND logic retrieves records in which all terms are present. A search for dog and cat
will return records with both dog and cat. The more terms you combine in a search with AND logic, the fewer results
you will retrieve. A search for dog and cat and fish will result in fewer returns than just dog and cat.

OR logic retrieves all the unique records containing one term, the other term, or both of them.
OR logic is most commonly used to search for synonymous terms or concepts, such as "college or university".
A search for dog or cat will result in records that have at least one of the terms.

NOT logic excludes records from your search results. A search for dog not cat will result
in records that mention dog but do not mention cat. Be careful when using NOT. The term you want may be present in
records that also contain the word you wish to avoid.